November has arrived, and here in Massachusetts, that means the air is getting colder, the nights longer, and the pace of life somehow even faster. As the days grow shorter, it feels like they’re slipping through our fingers. Once Halloween is behind us, it’s a whirlwind—go, go, go—straight through to New Year’s. For me, with…
I can take the cold. The darkness of winter is a lot less fun.
These are the last few days of July, and it feels like this has been the oddest summer ever. Nothing seems in its right place. I’m working from home, the kids’ plans have all been canceled, and we haven’t been inside a restaurant in over three months. Our summers usually have a well-defined start and…
Here in New England, autumn was beautiful. The mild temperatures and the rainfall throughout the year meant that the leaves changed slowly and stuck around a lot longer than usual. They were especially vibrant, too. Today though, it’s twenty degrees Fahrenheit, and I wonder where the autumn weather went. I just transplanted a shrub last…
Dear Reader, I was thinking the other day about what connects my writing; what’s the common theme that runs through my books, my blogging, and even the few books-to-be that I started, but shelved for whatever reason? Forgiveness and grace are themes I love to write about, but finding family/community is the theme that stands…
[Guest Post by Christa MacDonald] In the last few months I’ve been thinking about what a privilege it is to have folks read my books. All writing is personal to some degree, but novels are different. They only start with the writer. They’re really finished, so to speak, by the reader. As an author I…
When I was a little girl, I had some definite ideas about what I wanted my life to be like when I became an adult. I planned to have seven children, and I vowed to get married on Christmas Eve. I had seen Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and I remembered the part when the…